Toontastic for First Grade

I just started a Toontastic story telling project with the first grade students at Westside. In first grade students spend a lot of time working on their writers workshops and writing stories in both of their classes. I decided that it would be fun for the students to see story-telling through using a new app and applying some technology skills.

Toontastic: School Edition is an application that is loaded with tons of characters and settings for students to choose from. Students are also able to draw their own characters and settings for their stories! Students organize their stories and use the characters to help them tell their story. They will also record their voices into the app so the story is being read out loud to the viewer as the characters move and get acted out by the students. I'm really looking forward to trying this out with the First Grade class! I also used a great resource through the website "Teachers Pay Teachers" on how to organize and plan the activity.